We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our site. Cookies are files stored in your browser and are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. By continuing to use our website without changing the settings, you are agreed to our use of cookies.Read more …

More Seminars:

Crashworthy electric car body design

Description

New energy vehicles can have totally new structural layouts. This has great potential for the lightweight design. But there are also tremendous challenges considering the battery safety and battery containment. Here, numerical methods can support the development process. But, in order to support the development process with these CAE concepts and optimization strategies, it is very important to have knowledge on car body design and functional layout. This seminar will cover the crashworthiness knowledge for the design of electric car body. After the introduction in crash behavior fundamentals and the design principles, the important knowledge for the crash simulation of electric cars will be highlighted. The main chapter is on the technical implementation. The seminar ends with the description of the mathematical optimization methods for the crash development.

Course Contents

Fundamental mechanics of crash events

Accelerations during collisions

Structural loading during collisions

Examination of real crash events

Stability problems

Plasticity

Design principles for electric car body design

Functional based design

Car body structures

Battery structures for vehicles

Crash Simulation of electric car body design

Introduction in crash simulation

Finite element model generation of car bodies

Finite element analysis with explicit Methods

Examples

Technical implementation of safety measures

Energy absorbing members

Car bodies

Battery safety

Battery containment possibilities

Occupant safety systems

Post crash considering battery behavior

Using mathematical optimization in the development process

Introduction

Global mathematical tools

Optimization software

Optimization strategies

Scattering of variables

Shape variations and optimization

Topology variations and optimization

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel SchumacherUniversity of Wuppertal

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Schumacher studied mechanical engineering at the universities of Duisburg and Aachen. He received his doctorate on structural optimization from the University of Siegen. Following research projects for Airbus were focused on the optimization of aircraft structures. Thereafter he worked in the CAE methods development department of Adam Opel AG as project leader for structural optimization. From 2003 - 2012 he was a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and taught structural design, passive safety and structural optimization. Since 2012 he has been professor at the University of Wuppertal, where he holds the chair for optimization of mechanical structures.

no dates available

This course is available as an in-house seminar. The trainer comes to your site - you save travel expenses and travel time. Get an offer.